Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
PAUL SIMONI feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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